If the bill passes, it will be yet another restriction in a state that already has multiple anti-abortion restrictions.
States are continuing to introduce abortion bills at a breakneck pace, and Ohio is no exception. The state is currently considering a measure that would be even more restrictive than the one recently enacted in Texas, while another measure that would address so-called "botched abortions" is also making its way through the Legislature.
Ohio's proposed abortion ban is getting a lot of attention. It's even more drastic than the law that went into effect in Texas earlier this year: While the Texas law bans abortions at six weeks' gestation, Ohio's bill would completely ban abortion by defining an "unborn child" as "an individual organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth."
Ohio's bill contains a provision also found in the Texas law, whereby private citizens can sue anyone who "aids and abets" someone who obtains an abortion. The Ohio bill would also allow private citizens to sue anyone who has "taken action or made statements that demonstrate to a reasonable person that the person intends to" assist someone in obtaining an abortion.
That's not all that is happening in Ohio right now, however. S.B. 157, which has already passed the Senate and is now before the House, would mandate the creation of reports "listing the total number of women on whom an abortion was performed or attempted ... and in which a child was born alive...
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